For many Texans, basic necessities like clean running water and a stable electricity provider may seem like a pipe dream right now. It’s been a week since a frigid storm engulfed the state, knocking out power and water and leaving millions of Texans freezing in their homes for days. At least 29 Texans were killed
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Click here for updates on this story CAMBRIDGE, Illinois (Quad-City Times ) — An Atkinson man has been charged in Henry County Circuit Court with sex-related felonies. Shane B. Nordstrom, 41, was charged with criminal sexual abuse, a Class 4 felony, as well as four counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse, all Class 2 felonies.
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TUESDAY: This is just about how you draw it up! Loads of sunshine, with just a slight breeze throughout the day. Temperatures will warm into the middle 60’s this afternoon-get outside today! TONIGHT: We’ll cool off to about where we started this morning, into the middle 30’s. A cold front will move through after midnight, flipping winds
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Uncle Sam is in search for a pot of gold that could ease the pain of trillion-dollar deficits. And some believe Wall Street might just have the answer. For more than a decade, progressives have tried and failed to impose a financial transaction tax. But there is new momentum for such a levy as the
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The Biden administration is preparing to impose sanctions on Russia in the coming weeks over the poisoning and jailing of Russia opposition leader Alexey Navalny, according to two administration officials familiar with the matter. The form the sanctions will take is being firmed up and they will likely be rolled out in coordination with the
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JPMorgan Chase and Google launched a program Tuesday to help banks owned and led by people of color increase their lending capabilities. The new initiative is dubbed “Empowering Change.” It’s designed to help banks that are majority-owned or directed by people of color provide JPMorgan-backed money market funds to large companies. Most minority depository institutions
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story NASHVILLE (WSMV) — As part of Black History Month, one local organization is working to break down the stigma in the Black community of mental health. TN Voices says with all that’s been going on over the past 12 months, it’s important those in the Black and Brown
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Click here for updates on this story Valparaiso, Indiana (WLS) — A 5-year-old girl in Valparaiso waited outside her empty home in the cold for two hours after being put on a bus to go home from school instead of to daycare. Tabatha Schweller said her daughter Raelynne attends kindergarten at Washington Township Elementary, and
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Governor Andrew Cuomo announced Monday that movie theaters would reopen in New York City next month, welcome news for an industry that has been battered by the coronavirus pandemic for nearly a year. New York has long been one of the most important markets for movie theaters. With it reopening for business, studios may be
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Click here for updates on this story Chicago (WLS) — Chicago will soon reopen access to its lakefront, playgrounds and indoor aquatic programs, as COVID-19 metrics continue to improve across the city, Mayor Lori Lightfoot said in an announcement early Tuesday. The gates blocking Montrose Harbor were actually reopened last Friday so city trucks could
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story Sacramento, California (KCRA ) — Crystal and Chris Jackson just received word Sunday night that their three sons are not allowed to attend Sacramento’s Sacred Heart Parish School anymore, and they said it’s all because of Crystal’s online presence as a model on the adult, membership-based website OnlyFans.
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story Jackson, Mississippi (WAPT) — Thousands of Jackson residents remain without water as the city works to rebuild water pressure after last week’s winter storms and freeze. The city has been supplying non-potable water to use for toilet flushing, and thousands of bottles of water were given out over
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story DOUGLASVILLE, Georgia (WGCL) — Douglasville police announced they have arrested 10 members and associates of a street gang in connection to a robbery and aggravated assault that happened at Arbor Place Mall. The incident happened on January 2. Officers responded to a call reporting a large fight outside
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President Joe Biden’s choice for the nation’s top health official is testifying before Senate committees on Tuesday and Wednesday, as Republicans attempt to torpedo the nomination. Xavier Becerra, who is California’s first Latino attorney general, was tapped by Biden to be his Health and Human Services secretary in early December. Becerra, who would be the
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US Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) seized a shipment of cereal from South America that was covered in cocaine instead of sugar. CBP officers in Cincinnati, Ohio, intercepted the package on February 13 containing cocaine-coated corn flakes, according to a news release. The cocaine on the corn flakes weighed 44 pounds. While working on incoming
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Mizzou football coach Eli Drinkwitz completed his coaching staff on Tuesday morning ahead of spring practices. You can watch Coach Drinkwitz’s full news conference in the video player below. https://youtu.be/3ypw2sh1jWA Former Tulsa assistant coach Aaron Fletcher will replace David Gibbs as MU’s defensive backs coach. Drinkwitz also created two new positions on
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story Volusia County, Florida (WESH ) — A Volusia County sheriff’s deputy who was looking for a 13-year-old Oak Hill girl, who disappeared after school, went searching from motel to motel until he found her in a dark motel room with a 22-year-old Orlando man she met online, officials
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story Pottawatomie County, Oklahoma (KOCO ) — A man was taken into custody after a manhunt involving multiple agencies overnight in Pottawatomie County. According to the Oklahoma County Sheriff’s Office, a burglary call in Nicoma Park led to a high-speed chase. A deputy performed a PIT maneuver, causing the
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President Joe Biden’s Interior Secretary nominee Deb Haaland faced sharp questioning during a confirmation hearing Tuesday over past comments she has made criticizing Republicans. Republican Sen. John Barrasso of Wyoming, the ranking member on the Senate Energy and Natural Resources committee, confronted Haaland about a tweet from October 2020 in which she said that Republicans
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story Linwood, Kansas (KMBC ) — Many kids have seen a rocket launch into space. Very few can say they have an experiment onboard. That’s the case for students of Lisa Turney, a technology teacher at Linwood Elementary School in Linwood, Kansas. “I don’t know if they quite understand
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